1st Edition
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces Fashioning Future Females
Preface
What Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Wears
Donna Haraway
Introduction
“Have Space Suit--Will Travel”: A Manifesto for the Potential Real World Impact of Intergalactic Garb
Marleen S. Barr
Chapter One
Dressed for Dystopia: The Appropriation of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids’ Robes
Raffaella Baccolini
Chapter Two
Workwear, Armor, Voice: Feminist Embodiment and the Politics of Sartorial Worldmaking in Joanna Russ’ Fiction
Jeanne Cortiel
Learning to Fly: Wings, Fashion, and Posthuman Identity
Elana Gomel
Chapter Four
Japanese Cosplay as a Science Fiction Fashion System: Historical Notes on Transpacific Gender Politics
Mari Kotani
Chapter Five
Fashion Plates: Changing Depictions of Fashion in Connie Willis’ Bellwether, Justina Robson’s Keeping It Real, and Martha Wells’ All Systems Red and Artificial Condition
Sylvia Kelso
Chapter Six
The Fashion of Power and the Power of Fashion: Dress and Empire in
Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire
Anastasia Klimchynskaya
Chapter Seven
Sartorial Second Skin and Mundane Attire: Fashioning Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Dawn
Kamil Naicker
Chapter Eight
Feminist Refashioning in Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Chapter Nine
Science Fiction/Clothing/Reality Or “Putting the ‘Ass’ in ‘Astronaut’” Is a Definite Feminist Fashion No-No
Marleen S. Barr
Afterword
Astronaut Barbie
Constance Penley
Biography
Marleen S. Barr (USA) is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction. She has received the Science Fiction Research Association Science Fiction Research Association’s award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many critical anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. Barr is also a fiction writer who has published two novels and three short story collections.
